Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu has stressed that safe travel for women should be ensured in public transport as well as till their last destinations from the transit bus stops and stations, Lok Niwas officials said on Friday.
Chairing a meeting on Thursday to review women’s safety in public transport, Sandhu emphasised that the deployment of female armed police personnel in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses will ensure security for women passengers and asked the transport department to approach the Delhi Police for the same.
Sandhu underlined that the safety and security of women passengers should not only be ensured while they were travelling inside the DTC buses and other modes of public transport, but also at their doorsteps once they have de-boarded at the stations, depots or bus stands.
For this purpose, the L-G directed the officials to onboard cab and auto aggregators and e-rickshaws and deployment of female armed police personnel in the buses, officials said.
Secretary-cum-Commissioner (Transport), Managing Director, DTC and other senior officers of the Transport Department were present in the meeting.
Rollout of the Pink Smart Card initiative, status of CCTV and panic button deployments, operations of the control centre, bus marshal, and women’s participation in bus operations were reviewed in the meeting.
Acknowledging the department’s successful rollout of the Saheli Pink Smart Card, Sandhu stressed the need to make the card usable in all modes of public transport to ensure seamless travel for women passengers.
He emphasised leveraging the current operational baseline of 1,002 women conductors and 77 women drivers to further expand female recruitment across public transport fleets.
The department was also asked to focus especially on electric vehicles as last-mile connectivity options to reach remote areas, peripheral pockets, and unserved neighbourhoods in the city.
Sandhu also emphasised the need to introduce and encourage carpooling initiatives only for women, by onboarding private aggregators like Uber, Ola, Bharat Taxi and Rapido.
This would ensure that at any given time, even if the driver was male, a lady passenger was not forced to travel alone, officials added.
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